User blog comment:Snowstripe the Fierce/Continuity Errors in Redwall (book)/@comment-1298206-20160617233246/@comment-3135907-20160623012146

It's not impossible for a badger to know a searat. It doesn't have to be on "nice" terms.

Take Boar and Ripfang, for example. They were said to know each other very well, even had a bit of archrivalry going on, and were bitter enemies. "Knew" is not equal to "befriended".

The Devil, as a name for some kind of force of evil oppositionary to Martin, appears to intentionally exist in the Redwall world, not just in the first book.

Jacques uses the word later on, outside of Redwall. Take, for example, the excerpt from Marlfox: "...a devil may care [...]"

Also, it seems the hare expression "What the devil..."/"How the devil..." couldn't have come to exist without there being some concept of the Devil in their world on which to base it on. Seers, too, speak to a spirit that isn't Martin- they are seen to be surprised when Martin suddenly enters their visions instead of the spirit they were divining. Take Nightshade, for example, who was a true seer and not a charlatan.

Vulpuz, Lord of Hellgates, seems a likely candidate- depending on how you look at it.

(Just as a side note, there are multiple religions that officially regard the Devil as a dark counterweight to their various gods. Christianity isn't alone in its portrayal of the Devil, and it doesn't even have exclusive rights on the name Satan; Islam, for one, has Shaitan, an evil spirit who is at constant enmity with Allah. So Redwall not having Christianity isn't exactly an exclusionary factor; several other religions also believe in the Devil).

''While ferrets are dangerous to rats in the real world, the statement implies that all rats fear ferrets and/or all mustelids. This is strange, because in other books, rats and mustelids work together very often.''

I don't see how this implies that rats as a species fear mustelids at all. All it says there in the passage was that he had killed the ferret because he was scared of nothing and nobody. Sounds more like the ferret simply challenged him in some way, and while most rats might have backed down from a fight (as they are shown throughout the series to be general cowards), Cluny killed the ferret. Maybe that one particular ferret was one to be feared.

That the bees can talk is never mentioned again is an error in itself. Old Phredd had a conversation with a bee that at the start could have been dismissed as simply an old fogey talking at a bee, but the bee replied by "buzz[ing]" and "vibrat[ing] its little wings", something that Old Phredd was able to understand and respond to. There's actually a role of Beekeeper throughout the books, and one requirement of it happens to be the ability to communicate with them. Several Abbeybeasts, Beekeepers and not, are depicted doing so.

Overall, your research took effort and it's put with a degree of articulation. Good work, and further happy hunting through the Redwall books.